A blog dedicated to appreciate the good things in life and to share them with you.

Search This Blog

Tuesday, 3 April 2012

49 days later...

I really need to check in on my blog more often and
remind myself of what I've written, particularly my last post! So it's been 49
days since that post and I'm happy to say I have NOT taken one photo! I've
decided that clearly that "goal" isn't important for me at the moment
and that's OK. We take photos on our phone quite regularly so that will just
have to do for me now, rather than pulling the SLR camera out and trying to get
the "perfect" shot and worrying each day that I must get a photo to
represent today. That's an added pressure I don't need at the moment!

The 12WBT is coming along and the Facebook group I created is now up to 116
members! It's crazy to think that the group I started (hoping for 10-15 members
to hopefully catch up and train with) has gathered momentum and this number of
ladies! We're up to Week 4 (tomorrow) of the 12WBT and so far all is going
OK... Week 3 (this week) was a hiccup for me; back injury put me out of
training, old eating habits crawled back and self-doubt set in. So instead of
dwelling on this as I would normally have done and continued this old eating
habits, I've spent some time thinking about how they crept their may back in...
I need to train. It's a pretty simple thing. I need to be physically active and
energised to keep my mind in check and to allow me to enjoy the most of what
life has to offer. Training also encourages me to nourish and look after my
body so that I can cope with my training and feel the best! Needless to say,
I'm looking forward to a ripper Week 4 and actually really looking forward to
not having another piece of chocolate! I'm sooooooooooooo tired from eating
crap and not training that I can't dig myself out of this hole quick enough.

I'm not sure I would have come to these conclusions as quickly as I had if it
wasn't for the wonderful women I've met through Facebook. Whilst yes, this
social media avenue is sometimes used for not very nice things, but I would
like to disagree that it CAN be used for good rather than evil and my 12WBT
group is evidence to this. We comprise of women from all walks of life, some
with families, others not, some young, some more mature and the list could go
on about our differences but the one thing we have in common is we want to
change our lives; we want to change the way with live our life, the way we
treat ourselves and the way in which we give ourselves the best opportunities
of living life to the MAX!. I sometimes feel the "pressure" to hide
my faults and failures (eating crap!) from the group, as being the "creator"
I feel like I need to have all the answers and be a role model for these
ladies... but then I'm not being honest with them. I'm not saying to them
"hey... I might not have the greatest amount of weight to lose, I might be
skinny... but you know what? Skinny girls still have battles to fight as
well!" Just cause I don't have as many kgs around my tummy, doesn't mean
that my head feels the same". So, today... I put it out there; I put it
out there that I was struggling, that week 3 had got the better of me... and
you know what I got in return... SUPPORT! That is all I got. Pure,
non-judgemental, encouraging support... and for that I will be forever
grateful. I will be forever grateful for these women... who I created the group
for to assist them in changing their lives but in the process, whether they
know it or not, they're changing mine.

No comments:

Post a Comment

About Me

I'm a lover of the colour green and of sunshine... (clearly! as long as it's not too hot.) I'm a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a friend, a colleague, a business manager, a Papercraft lover!, a hobby photographer, I love organisation and being tidy (mess and I do not mix well!), i believe in natural remedies and therapies, a chocolate lover, I'm a FOXY gym member (not sure that goes with the aforementioned and the list could go on, but I'll let me blog do the rest of the tattle telling. For a long time I've thought blogs to be self-indulgent (and I think I still do?) but we'll give it a shot and see what happens!